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People also say " getting gypped", “caught redhanded”, etc. without “racist intent” but the terms are racist and come from racist stereotypes. So now that we know better why wouldn’t we evolve and do better?
Etymology
From red + handed, likening to a murderer with their hands red with the victim’s blood. The phrase to be taken with red hand originally meant “to be caught in the act”. The use of red hand in this sense goes back to 15th-century Scotland and Scottish law. Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe (1819) contains the first recorded use of taken red-handed for someone apprehended in the act of committing a crime. The expression subsequently became more common as caught red-handed.[1]
ORIGIN OF GYP
1885–90, Americanism; back formation from Gypsy
USAGE NOTE FOR GYP
Gyp in the meanings “to swindle” or “a person who swindles” is sometimes perceived as insulting to or by Gypsies, since it stereotypes them as swindlers. However, gyp has apparently never been used as a deliberate ethnic slur, and many people are unaware that it is derived from Gypsy.
People also say " getting gypped", “caught redhanded”, etc. without “racist intent” but the terms are racist and come from racist stereotypes. So now that we know better why wouldn’t we evolve and do better?
I thought ‘red handed’ meant you were caught with blood on your hands.
Geez. I’d never thought about the origins of “gypped” because I’d never really seen it textually before.
Etymology From red + handed, likening to a murderer with their hands red with the victim’s blood. The phrase to be taken with red hand originally meant “to be caught in the act”. The use of red hand in this sense goes back to 15th-century Scotland and Scottish law. Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe (1819) contains the first recorded use of taken red-handed for someone apprehended in the act of committing a crime. The expression subsequently became more common as caught red-handed.[1]
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/red-handed#:~:text=Etymology,century Scotland and Scottish law.
https://www.thewrap.com/atlanta-fact-check-is-the-phrase-caught-red-handed-actually-racist/
ORIGIN OF GYP 1885–90, Americanism; back formation from Gypsy USAGE NOTE FOR GYP Gyp in the meanings “to swindle” or “a person who swindles” is sometimes perceived as insulting to or by Gypsies, since it stereotypes them as swindlers. However, gyp has apparently never been used as a deliberate ethnic slur, and many people are unaware that it is derived from Gypsy.
https://choice.npr.org/index.html?origin=https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/12/30/242429836/why-being-gypped-hurts-the-roma-more-than-it-hurts-you#:~:text=According to the Oxford English,1914%2C in Louis Jackson %26 C. R.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/150468/is-jipped-a-politically-incorrect-word